I wish I had the guts. The glitter bomb is the latest thing to go crazy on the Internet and it is simply the perfect method for getting revenge.
Does anyone really like glitter? We got one Christmas card with glitter on it and I’m still finding specs of it around the house. On Saturday, I looked in the mirror and a piece of glitter was on my face. It got on the cat. It’s almost as if it replicates. I hate it.
A dislike for glitter is the reason behind sending a revenge glitter bomb to someone you have a beef or disagreement with. It started with an entrepreneur in Australia who became so popular but got so sick of it that within 7 days, she sold her company for $85,000. You pay $10 for a glitter “bomb” that’s sent anonymously to the person you loathe. They can’t tell the envelope is full of glitter and there’s no note on the outside so they have to open it to see what it’s about. When they do, glitter goes everywhere and they won’t be able to get rid of it all for months, maybe longer! The company promises to never share who sent it but the sender gets the quiet satisfaction of knowing the trouble they caused.
I can only think of a couple of people in my life who truly deserve this kind of annoyance but I don’t have the stones to do it. The thought of them opening glitter bombs makes my heart sing with joy. But I can’t bring myself to be the one to make it happen. If you can, click here for a link to the website: GLITTER. And if you do it and you know how it went, please tell me privately so I can live vicariously through your triumph! Your secret will also be safe with me.
Back in the early 80’s, I had my own version of a glitter bomb, but in my case it was all part of a practical joke and the liberal use of confetti. For my cousins 21ST birthday I place confetti in her pillows, throughout her dresser drawers, toes of her shoes and in various locations of a half packed suitcase and she’s still finding the odd piece of confetti in her old dresser drawers today. I even booby trapped her Xmas gift such that when she opened it she’d be sprayed with confetti. So the concept of the glitter bomb, is old news to me.
Funny post on our CHFI FB page: “I’m surprised at you propagating this kind of bullying.” Yes. Glitter bullying. I suppose…but jeez. PS I hope that glitter card wasn’t from me…er…was it?
We also did many things with confetti over the years. Derek once put it in a newlywed friend’s car heating system and that friend was pissed! We spread it around my Aunt and Uncle’s house for their 25th anniversary. There are loads of ways we used confetti which is annoying but has nowhere near the stickiness factor of glitter. Glitter is created in the inner depths of decor hell! You can get confetti on yourself and remove it easily. Glitter will become part of your life. Erin, that card was not from you or anyone else who would ever read this blog – or anything else on the Internet!